**3.5 stars
“Stillness seems to be fixed and unchangeable, never to be broken any more as long as my life lasts.”
How do I begin to describe A Tale of Two Cities? It’s hard to explain what I liked about the book and what I didn’t, because it was a mixture of both.
What I did like about the book was the characters. I am grateful that Dickens went into such great detail about them and their characteristics. I loved Sydney’s wit, which was obviously displayed, and I was also pleased with the setting and the literary devices used to describe the scenes/events (the wine-spill, the shadows, the Storming of the Bastille). Moreover, the prose was breathtaking, and quite frankly, I loved it. A Tale of Two Cities was true to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror that took place in France at the time as well (for Book the Second and Book the Third). I also like that it had multiple themes[(love=Lucie+Darnay+Carton),
(war=French Revolution), (deception=Solomon)] and a somewhat-good ending (you know what I’m talking about, if you’ve read it